Michele Santamaría

Michele Santamaría is the Learning Design Librarian at Millersville University. As such, she investigates student habits of mind and dispositions around information literacy and infuses what she learns into her pedagogy. In keeping with her range of advanced degrees in librarianship, anthropology, and poetry, Michele’s research agenda is interdisciplinary and has included prior ACRL book chapters on metacognition, autoethnography, and mentoring. She has also had the pleasure and honor of co-writing three pieces of scholarship with former students: Denise Petrik, Caseem Luck, and Megan Donnelly. Michele’s publications also include her own poems, which in the past have drawn from archival research and are a scholarly contribution to one of her assigned liaison areas, English and World Languages. Regardless of genre or subject matter, Michele’s intellectual work prioritizes the role of emotion and wonder. Santamaría earned her MS in Library Science from Long Island University, her MLitt in Anthropology from St. Andrews University in Scotland, and her MFA in Poetry from University of Oregon.